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No Indian dance performance is complete without a live orchestra. This was one of the best orchestras I have seen in recent years. I have posted a (video here) of this event, to give you a flavor of the music and dance performance.
This orchestra played both for Shalini Goel on July 31 and for Monishita Ray on Aug 27, 2006.
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From Left to Right:
Guru Jyoti Rout
Sri Satchidananda Das: Pakhawaj or Two-sided Drum
Sri Sarat Kumar Sahoo: Vocals, Harmonium(Keyboard), earned the honorific "Golden Voice"
Sri Ramesh Chandra Das: Violin, Professor Music, Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya
Sri Abhiram Nanda: Flute (student of Mohini Patnaik and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Sri Swapneshwar Chakroborty: Sitar, composer and founder of the Odissi Research Center
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Best viewed as a slideshow of the Odissi Dance Set.
A typical Odissi repertoire consists of the invocatory item 'Mangalacharan', a tribute to Lord Jagannath and the other Gods, also with stanzas to welcome the audience and to thank one's Gurus.
'Abhinaya' is a dramatic piece where mudras, facial expressions and body language are used as tools to emote or describe. In Odissi, abhinaya pieces are performed to both Sanskrit and Oriya songs.
'Moksha' is a pure-dance piece where the dancer tries to merge with the divine.
Institute: Jyoti Kala Mandir
Guru: Jyoti Rout
Lisa Hannigan live at St John's cathedral
www.crazybobbles.org/2008/12/11/lisa-hannigan-live-at-st-...
16th April 2013 at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Front Room), London SE1.
The Harmonium was first developed in France in the middle of the 19th century. It has a set of free reads, a keyboard and bellows. The bellows can be operated in two ways, either by sunction from below the instrument using foot pedals or by pressure from the back using the left hand.
This instrument is of the hand bellows variety. Some of these were made as portable as possible, and could be packed away in a suitcase. These were often used by missionaries.
Portable harmoniums were brought to India in the middle of the 19th century, probably by missionaries. The instrument which was developed from them is today used a wide variety of different types of South Asian music. Harmoniums have hand-operated bellows which blow air through banks of brass reeds. The left hand pumps the bellows whilst the right plays a keyboard (or the reverse if the musician is left handed). There are two sets of stops - main and drone - which control the airflow.
South Asian Harmoniums are assigned the number 412.132 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
4 = Aerophones. Sound is primarily produced by vibrating air. The instrument itself does not vibrate, and there are no vibrating strings or membranes.
41 = Free Aerophones. The vibrating air is not contained within the instrument.
412 = Interruptive Free Aerophones. The air-stream is interrupted periodically.
412.1 = Idiophonic Interruptive Aerophones or Reeds. The air-stream is directed against a lamella, setting it in periodic vibration to interrupt the stream intermittently.
412.13 = Free Reed Instruments. Instrument features a reed which vibrates within a closely fitting slot.
412.132 = Sets of Free Reads.
Looking east past a small harmonium, through the c1500 screen to the late 12c south aisle chapel which houses memorials to the Machen and Davies families - Church of St Mary the Virgin, English Bicknor, Gloucestershire,
Iver Torkildsen (f. 1857 i Verdal, d. 1890 i Åsen). Begynte orgelbyggeri (harmoniumsfabrikk) i Åsen sammen med broren Peder. Se Bygdebok for Åsen bind 3, s. 109-110 og 133-136.
Fotograf / Photographer: Henr. Stinessen, Nordre Gade 5, Trondhjem
Fotoeier / Photo owner: Åsen Museum og Historielag
Digitalisering / Digitizing: Arne Langås
Foto-ID / Photo ID: 022-0027
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Sound and Light Performance of John Adams's Choral Work "The Harmonium Project" with art projections onto the Usher Hall, Edinburgh - Edinburgh International Festival
Dr. Sudarshan Ram gave a tabla demonstration. www.lucidcommunication.com/2012/07/10/indian-culture-day-...
15th April 2011 at Royal Festival Hall (Bar level 2), London SE1.
Part of Alchemy Festival / Jahan E Khusrau Festival / Friday Tonic (free event).
Country: India. Style: Sufi Music - Qawwali.
Wajahat Hussain Khan Badayuni & Party. Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music. Wajahat Hussain Khan is from Badayun in Uttar Pradesh, and his qawwals follow the Awadhi style of singing. The band’s instruments were two harmoniums, dholak and tabla.
Questo armonium proviene da una delle navi americane che parteciparono allo sbarco in Normandia.
(Festival Ultrapadum 2011- Serata di musica tradizionale francese e italiana)
Nepalese cultural show in the restaurant of the Kuti Restaurant and Spa, my hotel in Pokhara, Nepal for the next couple of days. Thanks to a rather heavy downpour outside, all hopes of my going out with my good guide for dinner at a local restaurant were dashed to the ground. In the end, I ended up eating alone in my hotel restaurant as he did not join me, saying it was against the rules. I got a seat on the very first row, and the cultural show started off soon enough. One of the first numbers was this traditional Nepalese song with only a harmonium and a percussion instrument (called 'Dhol' in Hindi). One of the dancers (for a later event) kept disturbing the poor harmonium player by showing him something every other minute on her cellphone. Luckily, despite answering her repeated interruptions, the harmonium player didn't miss his beat or go off tune. After this rather slow start, the so called cultural show picked up pace considerably with the girls and one of these gentlemen dancing to popular Nepalese film songs. (Pokhara, Nepal, Oct/ Nov. 2019)
15th April 2011 at Royal Festival Hall (Bar level 2), London SE1.
Part of Alchemy Festival / Jahan E Khusrau Festival / Friday Tonic (free event).
Country: India. Style: Sufi Music - Qawwali.
Wajahat Hussain Khan Badayuni & Party. Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music. Wajahat Hussain Khan is from Badayun in Uttar Pradesh, and his qawwals follow the Awadhi style of singing. The band’s instruments were two harmoniums, dholak and tabla.
In the fall of 2013, students from the Multicultural Music Program at Morgantown Learning Academy (MLA) in West Virginia, led by their teacher Jen-Osha Buysse, reached halfway around the world to our students in the Udayapur Music Program in Tintale Village, Nepal. The Nepali children were thrilled to receive a hearty “Namaste” from their new American friends through the letters, pictures and songs that they sent. The Tintale kids responded through art, proudly presenting their school by drawing pictures of it to send back to the kids in West Virginia.
The students from our Tintale Music Program in Nepal are thrilled to be connecting with students from Morgantown Learning Academy in Northern West Virginia. It reminds them that there are children just like them across the world with the same passion for music and learning.
Kaizer's Orchestra plays oil barrels, wheel and harmonium. And they make it sound good too! From a concert at the Steinkjer Festival, Norway 2009.
During my last exhibition at the Premarts gallery, I painted in front of about twenty people, without any previous plan, only inspired by the music of the harmonium of Denis. www.denis-andre.net/home.htm
One in front of the other, waiting for feedback
Denis would play what he could see in my painting, I would paint what I could see in his music.
The result was very inspiring and really cathartic, I was not aware of what I painted until I saw it finished.
At the end of the 40-minute performance, that for me was about 40 seconds, I was dizzy and tired but satisfied.
Three paintings that danced with music (as a curiosity one of them would be stolen the next day)
One of the spectators approached me and told me that the performance had reminded her of a poem by Pablo Neruda "The Poetry"
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when, no they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street, I was summoned, from the branches of night, abruptly from the others, among violent fires or returning alone, there I was without a face and it touched me. I did not know what to say, my mouth had no way with names, my eyes were blind, and something started in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering that fire, and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open, planets, palpitating plantations, shadow perforated, riddled with arrows, fire, and flowers, the winding night, the universe. And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
Durante mi ultima exposición en la galería Premarts pinte en directo enfrente de unas veinte personas,sin ningún tipode plan previo, solo inspirado por la música del armonio de Denis.http://www.denis-andre.net/home.htm
Uno enfrente del otro, esperando retroalimentarnos
Denis tocaría lo que viera en mi pintura, yo pintaría lo que pudiera ver en su música.
El resultado fue muy inspirador y realmente catártico, no fui consciente de lo que pinte hasta que lo vi terminado.
Al final de la actuación de 40 minutos que para mi fueron como 40 segundos, me encontraba mareado y cansado pero satisfecho.
Tres pinturas que bailaban con la música (como curiosidad una de ellas seria robada al día siguiente)
Una de las espectadoras se acerco y me dijo que la actuación le había recordado a un poema de Pablo Neruda "La poesía"
LA POESÍA
y fue a esa edad... Llegó la poesía
a buscarme. No sé, no sé de dónde
salió, de invierno o río.
No sé cómo ni cuándo,
no, no eran voces, no eran
palabras, ni silencio,
pero desde una calle me llamaba,
desde las ramas de la noche,
de pronto entre los otros,
entre fuegos violentos
o regresando solo,
allí estaba sin rostro
y me tocaba.
Yo no sabía qué decir, mi boca
no sabía
nombrar,
mis ojos eran ciegos,
y algo golpeaba en mi alma,
fiebre o alas perdidas,
y me fui haciendo solo,
descifrando
aquella quemadura,
y escribí la primera línea vaga,
vaga, sin cuerpo, pura
tontería,
pura sabiduría
del que no sabe nada,
y vi de pronto
el cielo
desgranado
y abierto,
planetas,
plantaciones palpitantes,
la sombra perforada,
acribillada
por flechas, fuego y flores,
la noche arrolladora, el universo.
Y yo, mínimo ser,
ebrio del gran vacío
constelado,
a semejanza, a imagen
del misterio,
me sentí parte pura
del abismo,
rodé con las estrellas,
mi corazón se desató en el viento.
Amy Helm
Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers
Amy Helm vocals, mandolin, etc.
Daniel Littleton guitar
Adam Minkoff bass
David Berger drums, harmonium
Green River Festival
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Looking east down the nave - The church is empty, just a few chairs , harmonium, font and the chancel altar - painted walls , clear glass , brick floor, and plain white washed 18c king post roof beams add the impact of the c1425-50 painted wall scenes
particularly on the 12c north wall discovered by conservator Eve Baker in 1967
The upper tier has images of the 12 apostles flanking a central Christ (recognisable throughout by his flowing hair and forked beard) All hard to decipher - St Andrew's saltire (X) cross can be made out,
Below on a much smaller scale is the passion and resurrection cycle. with alternating backgrounds of white and red .
1. Betrayal of Christ (now lost;
2. The flagellation of Christ
3. Jesus stands before Caiaphas the high priest (in bishop's mitre & one of the guards with 14c helmet) which helped the contemporary worshippers to relate to the scene.
4. Jesus carrying the cross (mostly lost)
5 The crucifixion (now lost )
6. Jesus is removed from the cross by ladder
7. Jesus is laid in the tomb provided for him by Joseph of Arimathea
8. The resurrection (notice the upturned lid of the coffin)
9. The harrowing of Hell holding a cross Jesus leads Adam and others out of the jaws of Hell which is represented by a huge set of teeth
10 Jesus tell Mary Magdalene not to touch him despite her joy at finding him
11. St Thomas puts his hand into the side wound of Jesus - the first painting to be discovered and also the best preserved
12. The ascension (a series of heads look up as Christ ascends to Heaven )
The highly sophisticated scenes are painted on a very fine layer of rich plaster which covers another coarser base layer , and It is thought that these paintings may be the product of the same workshop that produced the Tree of Jess wall paints at nearby Weston Longville. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/E9771i
Curiously, there are no paintings on the south aisle south wall, but Eve Baker thought it had been prepared for painting, suggesting that something intervened to stop it happening, almost certainly the Black Death outbreak of 1348.
At the time of their discovery, the church was becoming derelict and was in danger of being demolished. However the Norfolk Society's Committee for Country Churches (which became the Norfolk Churches Trust) soon took action. They made the building wind and weatherproof and at the same time the Council for the Care of Churches rescued the astonishing paintings. - Church of St Faith, Little Witchingham Norfolk
Picture with thanks - copyright Julian P Guffogg CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5011896
Before any restoration other than to renew the straps connected to the pedals.
Shot with my old ~1 mp camera.
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